These dinosaur eggs are a fun twist on hard boiled eggs that leaves your peeled eggs looking like dinosaur eggs! When my boys were little I was browsing recipes when my then 4 year old son walked into my office. He took one look at the computer screen and exclaimed, “Mom! Is that a dinosaur egg??!” What he had spied was actually a Chinese Tea Egg. When brined in a mix of tea, and spices the crackly designs look (to me) like something you’d see on a Halloween themed table, but I took a mental note to make these with fun colors when Easter came around and we could pretend they were Dinosaur eggs. My boys thought they were SO cool.
Ingredients Needed
- Hard boiled eggs
- Water
- Food coloring
How to Make Dinosaur Eggs
- This really couldn’t be easier! The first thing you need is a bunch of hard boiled eggs. After the eggs are cooked, cooled, and dry, gently tap them on the counter top. You want to create little cracks all over the egg. It’s okay if a few small pieces of shell fall off, but try to avoid breaking large chunks off. You should just have small tiny cracks all over. In fact after you make a few taps on the counter, you can even gently squeeze the egg in your hand to crack the shell.
- Use liquid food coloring to tint some water, and plop your eggs in. For some reason, my Ikea kids cups are always my egg-dying cups. We wanted a few different colors so we put a single egg in each cup. This part isn’t rocket science. No specific measurements, just, ya know…do it. I let my kids squeeze in the food coloring so I’m guessing there are about 847 drops in each cup. If you want to be exact.
- Let them sit in the fridge for several hours, or overnight. I’ve actually only let them sit overnight, so I can’t tell you how many hours will do it if you don’t leave them in all night. Somehow that makes it more fun too. My kids get all excited to wake up in the morning and crack their eggs open.
- Remove the eggs from the water, rinse them off (so you don’t color your hands, um, not that I’ve done that…) and gently remove the shells, revealing the dino designs inside!
Dinosaur Eggs
A fun twist on hard boiled eggs that leaves your peeled eggs looking like dinosaur eggs!
Ingredients
- hard boiled eggs
- food coloring
- water
Instructions
- Hard boil your eggs and allow to cool.
- When eggs are cool and dried, gently tap them on the counter top, enough to create cracks, but not enough to loose large chunks of egg shell. You can roll the egg on the counter or gently squeeze it in your hand to create more cracks.
- Fill cups with water and some food coloring-just eyeball it!
- Drop your eggs in the cups and store in the refrigerator overnight.
- The next day, rinse your eggs under cool water, peel, and reveal your dinosaur egg pattern!
Cost: $5
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Questions & Reviews
My mom is diabetic and I’m going to do this for her Easter basket this weekend! (And she loves egg salad too!)
You are very funny. I think of myself as funny and I would like to think I would write an article similarly as funny as this but probably not. PARTICULARLY liked the crossed out line about avoiding housework. Will probably never read another post by you as don’t have time to follow such things and was just googling for kids party ideas, will make these tonight for a dinosaur party we’re attending tomorrow morning. So THANKS FROM NZ – for the laughs out loud.
Not sure that this hasn’t been answered or if OP reads comments still, but the rings she mentioned on the egg happen while the egg is boiling and circulating/ moving around in the pot. Actually adds some character!
Do this every year, my kids call the spring angel eggs! This is how we make our angel eggs for Easter, you can also add food coloring to the yolks and mayo to mix and match the colors to the outside! Also make them for Halloween using orange black and green gel dye and Christmas red and green! Yea we are festive I guess.. Lol
This is a wonderful idea! Thanks for sharing!
I am 18 and I’m going to make some for myself!! Lol
I feel so silly- we made these last night and I misread the directions. I thought you were supposed to dye as usual, remove from the dye, and then refrigerate overnight before peeling… lol. So of course they were really light and pale and I wondered why. Then I got on here again to read the directions after it was all said and done and realized you are supposed to leave the eggs IN the dye overnight…. lol! Next year. It was still fun and the kids loved it.